Might Quotes

Do not vainly lament, but do wonder at the rule of transiency and learn from it the emptiness of human life. Do not cherish to unworthy desire that the changeable might become unchanging.

Well, I think it can be quite helpful to be working on a character who actually existed, historically. Of course, you might have material to study and help you create the character.

To charm, to strengthen, and to teach: these are the three great chords of might.

Our time and attention is scarce. Art is not that important to us, no matter what we might like to believe.

God sifted a whole nation that he might send choice grain over into this wilderness.

I got a lot of grief from my teammates about that. It might backfire on my mom. Hopefully, my brother will have another chance somewhere down the road.

An idea you have might not be original. But by creating a novel out of that idea you can make it original.

A good teammate will correct somebody when they're doing something wrong. A friend might not say anything, a good teammate does.

You might think that it would he the natural desire of every man to develop as an independent personality, but this does not seem to be true.

only through new words might new worlds be called into order

I got a curve so sneaky it might be your daddy.

The web is my unconscious but it's also a wish -- a fantasy of what my own creativity might look like if I weren't constantly impeding its flow.

Champions know that there's something inside that makes a champion, and other people think that it might something external.

Sometimes when we're flying or in the hotel, I might run over songs, or in the bathroom.

Any pitcher who might throw at me should know I'm not giving up my day job or trying to get anyone else's job. I just can't think of anything cooler than being one of the boys of summer!

If you are really one of us, it won't matter to you that you might fail. And if it does, you are a coward.

You want to take me to a movie?" I asked. "Well, not really," he said. "What I really want is for you to be my girlfriend. But I thought saying that might scare you off.

Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.

If there is no ultimate reality, it's pointless to think about how we might get there.

A "Normal" person is the sort of person that might be designed by a committee. You know, "Each person puts in a pretty color and it comes out gray."

So I stepped away, reminding myself that when you're a spy, sometimes all you can do is go on. One foot in front of the other, wherever the narrow path might lead.

Well, since paradoxes are at hand, let us see how it might be demonstrated that in a finite continuous extension it is not impossible for infinitely many voids to be found.

When we think of classic American desserts, we tend to imagine apple pie and ice cream. However, the most classic American dessert of all might be the chocolate chip cookie.

[Jesus] was born and baptized that by his suffering he might purify the water.

They might object to some of my opinions, but they don't object to my behavior as a judge.

I might have been born just plain white trash / but Fancy was my name.

The Communist Party and the Soviet Government display constant concern to strengthen the country's defensive might and raise the combat readiness of the Armed Forces.

A myth or legend is simply not made up out of a vacuum. Nothing is--or can be. Somehow there is a kernel of truth behind it, however distorted that might be.

A beautiful question is an ambitious yet actionable question that can begin to shift the way we perceive or think about something - and that might serve as a catalyst to bring about change.

There is no expert on what happiness is but many on what it might have been.

Do not smoke without asking permission or sit so near (as in a train) that the smoke might annoy.

I don't get my authority from this preexisting paradigm which is quite narrow and only serves a few people. I look elsewhere for alternatives that might be of service to humanity.

Question all information when you receive it. You might not even trust me Look at me, I've got a blanket over me head.

The samurais lived with death constantly. They wore a short dagger to take their own life if need be. At any moment they might have to do that, it was a part of their code.

I think... the secret is to just settle for the shape of your life takes...Instead of you know, always waiting and wishing for what might make you happy.

Are you a reader? If you aren't a reader, you might as well forget trying to be a writer.

It's just the way things are. And you can't dwell on what might have been. You have to look at what is.

I never know tomorrow what I might be doing. I just ask God to lead me and show me and direct me and help me and support me in it. So I just wait to hear the call.

English tradition debars from dinner-table conversation almost all topics that might interest the conversers and insists upon strict adherence to banalities.

Email is familiar. It's comfortable. It's easy to use. But it might just be the biggest killer of time and productivity in the office today.

Karate has helped me lots, otherwise I might have got lost in substance abuse or something like the things a lot of other people do.

Only in the books written in earlier times did she sometimes think she found some faint idea of what it might be like to be alive.

A fly is a very light burden; but if it were perpetually to return and settle on one's nose, it might weary us of our very lives.

I might be shy, but in the field, where I have to do my work, I do it. I let my bat speak for myself.

I love sketch comedy. My real goal is to do something with Albert Brooks. That would be my fantasy. I stay up night and day thinking up stuff he might find funny.

It's a nice visual. I had just done Blade and I put on more weight for Blade and I thought I might as well use it so I kept it and added a little more. I wanted him to be a big bear.

I think sometimes Hall of Famers might get labeled as guys who aren't suited for a coaching job or to be back at the Major League level.

To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished.

If you want to conquer pride, do not say that your deed was done by your hands and might; say that with God's help and guidance it was done, not by my power and efforts.

But in another world, another life, probably growing up in another country, I might have been more of a dancer.